2nd Circ Rejects Intern Rehearing Bid In Fox Class Action

Law360, Washington (March 1, 2016, 3:52 PM EST) -- The Second Circuit on Monday declined a bid by interns at Fox Searchlight to reconsider its decision to toss out the standards they said should be used to determine if they should have been paid as employees.

The circuit court rejected the interns’ request for a rehearing by the three-judge panel that overturned the decisions of a New York federal judge, or for a hearing by the full appeals court, sticking with its July ruling that a "primary beneficiary test" should be applied to determine employee status rather than a test that would give them that status if the company gained...

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